'Indian shooting' kills six Pakistanis across border

Tensions between India and Pakistan have been especially high since last July [Shahid Ikram/AP]

Islamabad, Pakistan - Indian military shooting across the de-facto border has killed at least six Pakistani civilians, Pakistan's military says.

At least 26 people were also wounded in the exchange of fire, which affected Pakistan's Chappar, Harpal and Charwa sectors, the Pakistani military said in a statement on Friday.

Skirmishes across the Line of Control (LoC), the de-facto border between India and Pakistan, have become increasingly common in the last year, despite a 2003 ceasefire agreement.

The sectors reportedly targeted in the violence, which broke out on Thursday, fall in the Pakistani province of Punjab, parts of which are separated from Indian-administered Kashmir by a separate de-facto border known as the Working Boundary.